Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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What does the United States think it's going to gain from decapitating the Iranian leadership?
You can't trust anything that you're hearing right now.
You can't trust anything that you're reading right now.
Too tumultuous.
Who do you trust?
There is a domino effect that happens with every decision that the United States makes.
So...
Yeah, I was two years old when we left in March of 1979, a few months after the Shah had left and just after Khomeini had arrived.
Yeah, sorry.
The Shah, the former monarch of Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty, which came into power in the 1930s, deposing a previous dynasty that had been around for a couple hundred years.
And his father brought in that dynasty, and then it was eventually – he was deposed by the British and the Americans who felt he was getting too close to the Nazis during World War II, concerned about supply routes for the Nazis, oil.
And his son was installed on the throne at a very young age, I believe 18 or 19.
And he ruled Iran from that period, 1941, 1942, around that time, all the way through 79.
A great ally of the United States over time eventually, and was overthrown in a revolution.
And by Khomeini, who was a senior cleric who had been a thorn in the Shah's side since the 60s, was exiled first to Turkey, then Iraq, then ultimately to France, right outside Paris, actually.
From there, he basically led the revolution that led to the Shah's removal, Austria in 79.
That depends on who you ask.
It was a constitutional monarchy.
The Shah had powers that exceeded beyond what we think a constitutional monarchy has today, like in Great Britain.
He ruled with an iron fist when he needed to.
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